Darkwood

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Darkwood

Short description

Darkwood - a new perspective on survival horror. Scavenge and explore a rich, ever-changing free-roam world by day, then hunker down in your hideout and pray for the morning light.

Developer
Acid Wizard Studio
Publisher
Acid Wizard Studio, Hooded Horse
Release
Thu, Aug 17, 2017
Price
$19.99
Reviews
22,465
Positive
95%
Followers
98,616
Owners (estimated)
1M – 2M
Concurrent players
86
Genres
Action, Adventure, RPG, Strategy
Features
Full controller support, Steam Trading Cards, DualShock Controller Support, DualSense Controller Support, Remote Play on TV
Tags
Horror Survival Horror Top-Down Atmospheric Survival Dark Indie Open World Singleplayer Lovecraftian Exploration RPG Adventure Crafting Psychological Horror Inventory Management Action Gore Building Rogue-like
Revenue (estimated, gross)~$12.7msomewhere between $12.6m and $22.6m · roughly 1M–1.8M copies

Review count and SteamSpy's owner range agree well enough to narrow the estimate down to this band. Multiplied by $12.60, the average price these copies actually sold for — weighted from the price history rather than taken from the $19.99 launch price. That is 37% below list price on average. Before Steam's cut, VAT and refunds. How these numbers are calculated.

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History

74 data points since Aug 1, 2026. Gaps mean nothing changed — the value carries forward.

Revenue (est.) ~$12.6m → ~$12.7m
See data from Jul 2014 with a Plus account
Reviews 22,046 → 22,465
Followers 97,835 → 98,616
Concurrent players 86 → 86
Price $19.99 → $19.99
Positive reviews 95.0% → 94.9%

The revenue curve is an estimate, not a measurement. It is the only calculated series here: each interval takes the review growth of that period, multiplies it by the sales-per-review factor and by the price actually charged at the time, and adds the result to the running total. That is why it climbs more slowly through discount periods than the review curve next to it. The last point is the same figure quoted above — gross, before Steam's cut, VAT and refunds. How these numbers are calculated.

The blurred area is the rest of the history. 333 further data points reach back to Jul 1, 2014 — your plan shows the last 90 days of it. How far each series in particular reaches is written on its own chart; not every one of them goes back that far. The shape in the blurred area is decoration, not data: the figures are not in this page at all. Plus unlocks the complete series.

Lowest recorded price: $1.99 on Oct 2, 2026.

How crowded is this niche?

How full the niche around Darkwood is — measured on the tags it leads with, against every other combination on Steam.

±?? Horror + Survival Horror + Top-Down

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Similar games that found an audience

Games sharing at least 3 of this title's leading tags, with enough reviews to have gone somewhere. Ranked by how much they overlap, not by how big they are. − missing and + extra mark the tags each one does not share with Darkwood. Studio counts the titles that developer has released — the closest thing to production scale that public data allows. It is not a budget, and nobody publishes those.

Image Name Studio Shared Tag difference Price Reviews Positive Released Revenue (estimated)
SOMA SOMA Frictional Games 9 titles 4 − Top-Down − Survival + Psychological Horror + Story Rich $29.99
$5.99
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$952k – $1.7m
HORROR TALES: The Wine HORROR TALES: The Wine Carlos Coronado 3 titles 4 − Top-Down − Survival + Psychological Horror + First-Person $11.99 444 78% Fri, Jul 30, 2021 $217k
$96k – $217k
Among Ashes Among Ashes Rat Cliff Games 2 titles 4 − Top-Down − Survival + Psychological Horror + First-Person $14.99 432 96% Mon, Dec 09, 2024 $268k
$119k – $276k
Living Cell Living Cell Blazing Planet Studio 10 titles 4 − Top-Down − Dark + Post-apocalyptic + Adventure $4.99 247 96% Mon, Nov 06, 2023 $55k
$25k – $99k

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